Through research, reportage, and travel, Mexicanista explores Mexican culture as found in its largest cities to smallest pueblos, and even beyond its borders, primarily through the lens of female perspectives.
The election of Mexico's first female Presidenta is a significant milestone, no matter what one's politics.
At a recent Pride Month exhibition in Oaxaca City, artist, writer, and academic Edward J. McCaughan displayed relief prints depicting real life men and women incarcerated in Mexico City's notorious Belén Prison for the 1930 crime of Being Gay.
See more of this moving artwork.
Meet Mexican-American journalist, activist and educator Jovita Idár - the Original Mexicanista who serves as our guiding light. She famously said,
"Educate a woman and you educate a family."
Jovita Idar
1885-1946